I'm not a Portland resident and have no intention of getting into the pro/con of this proposal here.

I do have to offer a correction to the above, however. A number of items in this list are *not* Portland only.

For example, the commuter rail items alluded to are entirely within cities in Washington and Clackamas counties and do not at any point enter Portland. The Arista Trolley Trail is also not in the city, nor is the Ruby Junction trail program. large segments of the light rail funding above are also in Clackamas County.

There are also a number of items above that are regional programs that serve the entire metro area. I make no comment on if they are good or bad programs, but they are *not* purely Portland programs.

If this list is ODOT, it is a list of capital funds not maintenance funds. There may be strings attached to such funding and it depends on where the original government money source was, e.g. Federal vs. State, etc....

To make a comparison for determining the benefit (or lack thereof) of this proposal, you'd need to compare funds sourced from funds paid directly by taxpayers/businesses to the City of Portland, from both taxes and from user fees. Only an examination of the budget allocations of these funds would allow a directly apples-to-apples assesment.